policies of the current government could be improved (Matheson et al. 2007). This paper examines an attempt to de … government officials and experts as well as legal acts, available documents, articles, and personal interviews. The paper …

so requires information on the nature and magnitude of market failures on the one hand, and government's capacity to …

Emerging market and developing economies have experienced recurrent episodes of rapid debt accumulation over the past … fifty years. This paper examines the consequences of debt accumulation using a three-pronged approach: an event study of … debt accumulation episodes in 100 emerging market and developing economies since 1970; a series of econometric models …

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly come under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

variability of social capital as wealth. The analysis is used to argue, given what has been learned from the literature on social … Gallup World Poll, the paper presents a range of estimates of the wealth-equivalent values of social trust. Such values are … usually not included in national or global accounts of income and wealth. In the light of the estimated importance of social …

This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the … that while income inequality is similar to that of the United States (US), wealth inequality is barely one-third that of … SSA as in the US, the share of total wealth accumulated by the income-rich in SSA is one-fifth of its US counterpart. The …

were asked to score stylized vignettes, as well as their own household. Diverse scales are in evidence, casting …

Since income is the return on wealth, the total wealth of any given country should be on the order of 20 times its … implication is that the System of National Accounts wealth accounts are incomplete, with the most obvious omission being human …-income) countries yields a mean share of human capital in total wealth of 62 percent -- four times the value of produced capital and 15 …

This paper analyzes to what extent, and under what conditions, an increase in household wealth affects the use of child … maximize household income over time, subject to resource constraints. Then, it conducts an empirical analysis using randomized … program transfers wealth to poor families in rural areas, conditional on children's school attendance and health check-ups. In …

Existing wealth estimates show that in most countries intangible capital is the largest share of total wealth …. Intangible capital is calculated as the difference between total wealth and tangible (produced and natural) capital. This paper … uses new estimates of total wealth, natural capital, and physical capital for a panel of countries to shed light on the …